Books Quote by George Saunders

In my experience, a novel is the culmination of various thoughts and impressions collected over time, until something comes along to give them a…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

A novel means a new way of doing a story

— Romesh Gunesekera

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of…

— Samantha Hunt

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

— Walker Percy

A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who haven't been…

— Emily Barton

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

— Helen Dunmore

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

— John Green

We live in a sea of general ideas, so that's not a novel, since there are so many general ideas. But the moment a…

— Chinua Achebe

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from…

— Anne Fortier

A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad,…

— Lorrie Moore

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by…

— Roddy Doyle